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David R. Ellis has passed away unexpectedly, at the age of 60. He had been at work on his next film, Kite. May he rest in peace. He was a director who worked on Snakes On A Plane, Final Destination 2, and many others. He was also stunt coordinator for The Addams Family, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Ghost Dad, Warlock (1989), Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge, The Beastmaster, and many other tv shows and movies.

Fandom Stockings are live. And another thank you to those that left well wishes, fanfic, or fanfic IOU’s.

Happy 66th Birthday, David Bowie.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been cast in Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

Josh Brolin joins Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.

10 Awesome Female Engineers From Science Fiction.

Fan Art: Ghostbusters 3 poster starring Andrew Garfield.

Amy Pond, The Girl Who Waited Under A Van Gogh Sky T-Shirt.

Guillermo del Toro Confirms DC Comics Project Dark Universe

100 Quotations Every Geek Should Know.

Comics You Should Own—Sandman.

Television Critics Association Winter Tour Part 1: 'Hannibal,' 'Bates Motel,' 'Mockingbird Lane', ‘Dracula.’

Honest Trailers: Inception.

Rachel Weisz Reveals Oz: The Great And Powerful Character Details.

The Ultimate Guide To 2013’s Science Fiction And Fantasy TV.

Bones Renewed For Ninth Season.

Adapt And Die: Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde (1988)

Mark Romanek’s live action Cinderella movie is too dark for Disney.

Watch out: Someone is trying to scam science fiction authors.

An interview with Steven Moffat, conducted by his son Josh.

An interview with Tobe Hooper.

More DC Writer Changes To Come - Was Gail Simone Just The Beginning?

Zombie attack sheet set.

James Mangold Explains The Wolverine's Placement in the X-Men Film Universe

Trailer for Syfy’s Defiance.

We Hate Movies Podcast, Episode 92: The Raven (2012).

Now Playing Podcast: Texas Chainsaw 3D (2012)

As a passing note as to how cluttered Nellie’s house was? Her daughter hired a cleaning crew. They’ve brought the back of a semi truck to cart things off, with extra dumpsters. They’ve been working almost non-stop (they took a break on Sunday afternoon) since Friday. They’ve hauled that thing away six times to the dump and back, and they’ve only made it into the living room. They get here at 7 AM every morning, and they don’t stop until 6 PM.

U.S. And Russia Announce Online Piracy Crackdown Agreement.

The Best of Rifftrax Live In Theaters January.

Christmas With Rifftrax: Santa’s Village of Madness (Sample).

James Marsden - With Great Power Extended Interview

Happy Holidays From Stan Lee.

The opening scene of Doctor Who’s The Snowmen.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Christmas Movies/Specials That Should Be Riffed (Round 2)

The Power List: 22 People Who Supercharged Science Fiction And Fantasy In 2012.

Sir Ian McKellen’s favorite Hobbit scene didn’t even make it in the movie.

Fan Art Fridays: Danny Hellman’s ‘Strange Santa’ Illustrations. Santa as Van Helsing—odd crossover.

Awesome Art Picks: Joker, Spider-Man, Darkseid And More.

Kristen Stewart Confirms Return For Snow White And The Huntsman Sequel.

The New Writer of Batgirl Is…Gail Simone.

ABC exorcises 666 Park Avenue from its schedule.

Leverage Cancelled, Series Finale To Air December 25th.

Addictive TV series you can mainline right now to escape the holiday blues.

I Love Ya But You’re Strange—Batman And Plastic Man Have A Buttlegging Christmas.

Geek Gear: Batman ‘Harley Country’ Shirt.

Illyana Rasputin, as drawn by Art Adams.

Oh, the world didn’t end yesterday? Nutcracker Galactus will take care of that.

Ghostbusters-Inception Mash-Up Is Why The Internet Was Created.

Christopher Lee has just released two heavy metal Christmas covers.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #156: Christmas Rush (2002)

Smodcast: Paul Dini: The Dini Dossiers: Part 4. They’re discussing holiday-themed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League Unlimited.

Livejournal sent me a notice saying that the x_meggan Paid Account expires in 5 days. Even though I used those tokens to renew it. Even if it says the extra icons are renewed until sometime in 2013. We’ll see if the LJ tokens actually worked in 5 days, then. If not, I’ll just end up going through and deleting icons when I have the time.

BitTorrent Wants To Be Hollywood’s New Best Friend.

MTV Geek’s Holiday Gift Guide: Gifts For The Doctor Who Fan.

Nerdy Gifts For Comic Book Fans.

Radio Times Doctor Who Cover (Christmas 2012).

Jenna-Louise Coleman: Becoming The Companion.

Karen Gillan on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson.

Inside Lost Girl—An Interview with Consulting Producer and Writer Emily Andras.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey TV Spot #9.

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has left the Highlander remake.

Will Gail Simone Leave Batgirl? DC Creative Changes In The Next Few Months.

From Cracked: The 5 Most Hilariously Misguided Comic Book Adaptations.

Weekend Discussion Thread: Favorite In-Theater Sound Effect.

Grace Randolph’s Between The Pages: Mystique.

Zombify Your Christmas Tree Ornaments, Non-Zombie Edition.

New Night of the Demons 2, Monster Squad DVD/Blu-Ray art and details.

Rick Baker Gets A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

Another ‘If Only’ Sequel Poster from Strange Kids Club—The Bride of Dr. Phibes.

Best Art Ever (This Week)—November 30th.

Awesome Art Picks: Batman, Jean Grey, Optimus Prime and More.

City of Heroes Goes Out With A Roar And A Bang.

Saturday B Movie Reel Podcast #88—American Horror House.

Bad Movie Fiends Podcast #153: Dinosaur Island (1994).

Terror Transmission, Episode 81: Peeping Tom (1960)

Commentary Track Stars: Aliens of the Deep (2005) Commentary.

BitTorrent Tries To Appease Users By Making Torrent Ads Optional.

The trailer for Robot Chicken’s DC Comics Special.

The Official Poster For The CW’s Arrow.

The Line It Is Drawn #102—A Tribute To Joe Kubert.

15 Kids Comics That Have Deservedly Been Forgotten.

Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 229: JLA #95.

The Legal View: Legal manuevering on both sides as judge cancels Superman hearing

Shatner Returns As The Priceline Negotiator.

Seth Green joins the cast of Delete, a new four-hour miniseries from the writers of Stargate SG-1.

Interview with Gail Simone on Leaving Megalopolis.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste joins the cast of Robocop.

David Alpay joins The Vampire Diaries.

Stan Lee On His Favorite DC Character, Marvel Movies, And More.

Cocktails With Stan Lee: Nathan Fillion, Extended Cut.

Superhero Origins: Martian Manhunter.

The Cinefiles: Terry Gilliam, Part 1.

Colin Morgan discusses the upcoming fifth season of Merlin.

Life Outside The TARDIS: Alex Kingston.

Comics, Everybody! The History of Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers).

The First Frankenstein Movie Was Made In Edison’s Bronx Studio…In 1910.

10 great tear-jerker geek TV episodes. Personally, I would remove Buffy’s The Gift from that list, and slip in The Body.

Io9’s Giant Guide To Fall’s Must-See Science Fiction And Fantasy TV.

The Revolutionary Technology That Turned Rebecca Romijn Into X-Men’s Mystique.

Bane Window Art. For those that can’t make out the words, it says “When the car has been washed, you have my permission to drive.”

Comic Book Legends Revealed #380.

Now Playing Podcast: Casino Royale (1967)

Movie Issues Podcast: Stay Tuned (1992)

Remembering Nora Ephron.

Megaupload Search Warrants Ruled Illegal By High Court.

Darren Lemke Tapped For Carmen Sandiego.

Rumor Control: Ryan Reynolds Not Yet Confirmed For Highlander Reboot. Okay, until they officially have an entire cast in front of a camera, and are ready for filming, I’ll quit listening to any Ryan Reynolds is/is not cast related rumors. I think this was the third or fourth time they’ve said he was, and then wasn’t.

Atari at 40.

Dark Shadows Turns 46 (sorta).

Dark Shadows Box Office Update: Over $218 Million Worldwide.

Cinematic Titanic Comes To Hulu.

Shooting Has Officially Begun On The Carrie Remake.

The New Trailer For Total Recall.

Gail Simone, Gamerati.

Hasbro To Launch New Jem And The Holograms Collectible Fashion Doll Line At SDCC 2012.

David Warner will appear in an upcoming episode of Doctor Who. Aside from who will be writing the episode, as well as the episode number, there are no spoilers at the link.

Bobby Brown’s Music Video For Ghostbusters 2 Is A Bizarre Moment In Time. I recognized Christopher Reeve on a bike, Donald Trump, Michelle Pfeiffer leaving a strip club, and Rick Moranis at a payphone—but nobody else.

Adventures Of A Rare (And Not Very Rare) Book Collector.

Locus Roundtable On Geek Culture.

The Entire Cast of Community Is Back For Season 4.

Geek Gear: Community ‘Theatre In Spacetime’

Toks Solarin’s X-Men Redesign.

From Cracked: 5 Ridiculous Things That Show Up In The Art Of Every Comic.

Spider-Man will have a teenage sidekick.

The classics come to Blu-Ray, Universal Monsters announced for October.

World premiere of restored The Curse of Frankenstein at De Montfort University on July 13th and 14th.

June 30th, 2012 Will Have 1 Extra Second

New image from The Possession.

Star Wars R2-D2 Novelty Phone.

Scaled-down Marvel Adventure theme park to open next year in Dubai.

From Think Geek: Futurama Yahtzee.

Pulp Nightmare Commentary Podcast: Children of the Corn (1984)